Mulayam demands ban on English in Parliament


Etawah (UP) Nov 17 (PTI): MPs should be banned from speaking in English in Parliament, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has said.

"There should be a ban on English address in Parliament. Countries which use their mother tongue are more developed. It's the need of the hour to promote Hindi," Yadav said in a function here last night.

He was addressing a programme organised by Etawah Hindi Sewa Trust to felicitate persons involved in promotion of Hindi.

"The leaders of the country have double character as far as Hindi is concerned. They ask for vote in Hindi but give address in Parliament in English. This should be stopped," he said, clarifying that he was not against English language per se.

Yadav said people living in different regions should try to promote Hindi apart from their regional languages.

In his address, the SP chief also cautioned the Centre about China, saying the country could not be trusted.

  

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  • af, mangalore

    Mon, Nov 18 2013

    Hindi is our national langause correct, but go to tamil naadu,if anyone find single board or any kind of display in hindi ? even is rail stations it is not written

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  • Ranjith Rodrigues, Udupi

    Mon, Nov 18 2013

    India is a nation of languages. At last count, there were more than 600 languages (including dialects). Best option is for politicians in the parliament to correspond in sign / "deaf-dumb" language. At least, there might talk more sense this way...rascals!

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  • Shakeel , Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 18 2013

    I feel Mulayam Singh is 100% correct. As Hindi is our National Language, we should use Hindi language in all the govt works.

    Let it be any state, The govt should utilize two languages English And Hindi. However he cannot impose a Ban on English.

    All the developed countries use their own language. For i.e Arabic, Chinese, Japanes, French etc etc....

    So is strongly agree with the words of Mulayam Singh.

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  • grace pinto,

    Mon, Nov 18 2013

    What goes on in parliament needs to be conducted in a language that is understood by all. With the number of languages that India has it is not fair that we pick Hindi. English is an International language which everyone in parliament is expected to know.

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  • TULUVA, Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 18 2013

    Ban Mulayam in parliament instead. Problem KHATHAM.

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  • jeetendra hegde, mumbai

    Mon, Nov 18 2013

    wah mulayamji...poora india ko bhaiyya banane ka chakkar mein hai kya??????.

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  • maxi, kinnigoly/mumbai

    Mon, Nov 18 2013

    "The leaders of the country have double character as far as Hindi is concerned"The leaders of the country have double character as far as Hindi is concerned``.quoted by mulayam singh.

    he himself is the first & the best example for that.why did leaving all colleges in hindi belt m.s .sent akilah to study engineering at sjce Mysore.later masters at Australia in environmental engineering.same is with vatel nagraj of Karnataka in 1980`s.leaders dwelling in fools paradise.

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  • Srikanth, Bangalore

    Mon, Nov 18 2013

    Hello ppl who supports hindi, first know that hindi is nt our national language and before independent, nobody in south and few north state ppl know hindi. After independent only govt started imposing and force other state ppl to learn hindi.

    Tell me frankly, what qualities hindi has over other south indian languages? ALl the south languages are d as classical languages and NOT hindi :)

    Kannada, Tamil, Telugu are far better than Hindi. If u ppl need only hindi, better let split india and u can force ur own country ppl to speak ur language..

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  • Valerian Dsouza, Udupi/Mumbai

    Mon, Nov 18 2013

    Great demand from great Mulayamji!
    Let all regional parties demand:
    Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Oriya, Gujarati, Marwari, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Assamese, Punjabi, Sindhi, Manipuri, Gadwali and other regional languages in parliament and let MULULAYAM be the co-ordinator to deal with them!
    He shouldn't even use Motor car which uses English, instead take bullock cart to Parliament!

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  • simple, Bangalore

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Why we have thees kind of politicians who bring up useless, trouble causing topics every now and then just to hide their inabilities, instead of applying their "TAN MAN DHAN" for improving their State and the Country.

    All these type of politicians should be exiled to some Indian Islands in the Indian ocean, as far as possible from the Indian shores.

    Then there is a chance for our country to improve.

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  • stan, dubai

    Mon, Nov 18 2013

    If you are scholar in Hindi also, Hindi of some north Indian states are not understandable, same like Mangalorean Kannada is different than some of our parts of Karanataka. So which Hindi he is speaking about???????

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    We south Indians are more comfortable in English than Hindi. Hindi is completely different from our language. South Indians are well educated than Northies. 3 states of South India (strike hit kerala not counted) generate maximum employments in India.

    I studied Hindi as a 3rd language from 5th to 10th std. But today I can't understand even 50% Hindi though I am in cosmopolitan Bangalore. I am not interested in learning that language. I respect Hindi, but I don't like it.

    I am against teaching Hindi as 2nd/3rd language in Karnataka. In place of Hindi tulu/kodava languages should be taught.

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Make Kannada compulsory in Parliament. Otherwise how our Chamarajanagar MP R Dhruvanarayana and Bangalore South MP DK Suresh speaks in Parliament? They knows only one language Kannada.

    Nalin is better with skills of 2 languages Kannada and Tulu.

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Mulayam,

    English is required.

    Ban hindi in parliament and bring Kannada. After having stayed 5 years in Mysore, your son can not utter "nanage swalpa kannad gothu"

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  • stan, dubai

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    We want comment from our Senior most politician Sir, Deve Gowda......

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  • RSRB, Kundapura / KSA

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Mulayam Singh has a great idea. he wants english to go from parliament. Congress will do it for sure because they want to continue in power. Bu the truth is in 2014, it is not english, but party started by englishmen (Congress) will not be in parliament.

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  • Golbert C Pinto, Mangalore/Muscat

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Next ban on Pant/Shirt.......?

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  • Joseph F. Gonslaves, Bannur, Puttur / Mangalore

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    It is better by both Mr. Nalin Kumar Kateel and Mr. Mulayam Singh yaadav discussed about which language is good to use in the parliament.


    hahahaha...
    Thab mazaa aayega...

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  • Societal Web, Dubai

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Yes, let us go back to the beginning and start over. Whatever we have been doing so far does not make sense anyway !

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  • Praveen Kumaresh, Bengaluru

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    First, ban teaching Hindi in Karnataka schools and stop imposing hindi in Banks, and then speak of banning English in parliament.
    Just see the reaction of DMK/AIADMK MPs tomorrow to Yadav's demand.
    Stop giving permission to CBSE schools in South India as they do not teach local language.

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  • Ramakrishna. K. , Mangalore

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    First of all ban Hindi in all Public Sector Banks and Central Govt Offices in South India. We are fed up of imposing Hindi on us through the back door.

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  • shAIkH Mohd RIzwan, Karkala

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Dear readers,

    What about MP's elected from Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra? So govt. need appoint translators and allocated more times.

    Sometimes back English Master Rajnath Singh blamed English for our cultural lose.But he sent his daughter to work in US and son studying UK.Whereas Yadav son graduated in Engg from Mysore why does he opt for English?

    Jai hind

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  • Francis, Moodbidri/Dubai

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Make it Kannada, otherwise how our Nalin will ask questions in parliament? Bechara uske hindi or english ka kuch atha patha nahi :)

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  • Satish Karnik, Karkal/Bangalore

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Mulayam must be regretting sending his son Akalesh to Karnataka and English medium schools.

    May be he is planning to stop him contesting the next election because he studied in English ?

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  • Wilfred Fernandes, Vamadapadavu/Dubai

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    As Defence Minister in 1996 Mr. Mulayam Singh changed the names of several Military Ranks & Military Equipents from English to Hindhi. With in two years, his Hindi names along with him disappeared from the Defense Ministry. Mr. Singh and his friends like Naresh Agarwal Always want to be in news for whatever the reasons.

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  • Sharan K, Mangalore

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    This idiot put his son Akilesh to one of the top CBSE english medium school(military)in UP and later masters in Australia. First let him prove himself that he is not hypocrite.

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  • Veerappa. D.N., Madikeri

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Inspite of this Akhilesh cannot speak fluent English. He was in Mysore Engineering college for 5 years and he stayed with a family speaking Urdu as paying Guest and he did not learn a single word of Kannada in five years in Mysore. That is why his father wants to Ban English and also all South Indian languages too.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Tomorrow FEKU would want only GUJARATI....

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  • Ted, Mangalore

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    FEKU may wish to have Garba as the National Dance and Dhokla as the National Snack of India.

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  • Arshad Kadli, Bhatkal / Al Khobar

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Mulayamji, first you yourself should practice what you preach.
    If you loved your motherland so much why you opted to send your son to Sydney for higher studies rather than admitting him in Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth or any other universities in UP?

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  • stan, dubai

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Please note that Hindi is not a national language….. When any crime happens in Mumbai and the victim gives his statement in his language than it is translated and registered in Marathi and in Court same Marathi is translated in English and the full case is fought in English. Here there are 2 translators are involved and any mistake, the case is null and void. So India has to follow one main language

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  • Ted, Mangalore

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Hindi is not the National language of India, moreover 60% of Indians don't speak Hindi.

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  • John Tauro, M'lore / Kuwait

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Hindi is the national language of India. In every country of the world the national language is also the country's official language. In India Hindi is one of the official languages besides English. Population wise Hindi is the fourth largest language spoken in the world, next only to English, Chinese and Spanish. Hindi is taught in the Universities from Russia to South Africa. Australian Govt. is also planning to introduce Hindi as one of the foreign languages in their public schools. These facts are a matter of pride for all Indians. So why should we ignore Hindi in our daily business?

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  • Ted, Mangalore

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    John Tauro, M'lore / Kuwait

    Hindi is the national language of India ?

    I will change my name if you are able to officially prove this statement.

    India does not have a National Language.

    English and Hindi are the official languages of India, but individual states have the autonomous right to enforce their regional languages as their official Language instead of Hindi.

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  • Joseph F. Gonsalves, Bannur, Puttur / Mangalore

    Sun, Nov 17 2013



    WHY NOT?!
    WE NEED KONKANI, KANNADA AND TULU IN THE PARLIAMENT.

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  • Arun, Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 18 2013

    And also Malayali for those politicians who are from Mangalapuram border.

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  • Mohammed Juned, Karkala/ Bangalore

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Dear Mr Yadav,
    Well in that case, MP's from Karnataka would address the parliament in kannada language as most of the MP's from this region are poor in Hindi. Therefore i request you Mr. Yadav to kindly enroll yourself for Kannada tuitions at the earliest to understand the parliament proceedings henceforth.

    Thanks and regards.

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  • stan, dubai

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Why Hindi.... We must promote Kannada... our all parliamentarians must speak in Kannada.... He wants Hindi because he knows only Hindi- not English.

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  • For Justice, Abu Dhabi / Ubar

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Please don't forget that Hindi is our national language, not Kannada or so.

    My opinion is,whoever contesting in M P elections must be fluent in both Hindi as well as in English and speaking language should be optional, while speaking in parliament.

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  • Shrushta, Mlore

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Yes your opinion is heard and they have passed the rule just as you say... LOL

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  • For Justice, Abu Dhabi / Ubar

    Sun, Nov 17 2013

    Don't be jealousy yaar..Be sportive.

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